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Sgt. Cory Aukes' quest to become Hubbard County's next sheriff has launched into cyberspace. Aukes has set up a Facebook page for his run against Sheriff Frank Homer in the fall election. He already has numerous fans, 352 to date, some of which may not be able to carry the day for him. John Snelling wrote: "You are the man for the job.

One month after the Hubbard County Board of Adjustment issued a controversial variance to allow nearly three times as many dock slips as the law permits to a Nevis resort turned PUD, a lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Fifth Crow Wing Lake residents seeking to overturn that decision. And it puts county commissioner Don Carlson, a member of the Middle Crow Wing Lake Association, in the awkward position of suing the governmental body he represents. Carlson, also a member of the county Planning Commission, said he would remove himself from any future votes over Eagles Landing Resort, but de

A vacant rural home southwest of Park Rapids was engulfed in flames when Park Rapids firefighters arrived on the scene at 10 p.m. Monday. Assistant fire chief Terry Long said he does not know who owns the home, but was told it had been recently occupied. The fire destroyed an addition to the wood shingle home and caused extensive damage to the interior. The state fire marshal was on the scene Tuesday morning and called firefighters back. "It had rekindled along the roof line," Long said. In all, 22 firefighters responded.

Edward Joseph Lowen, a suspect in the Feb. 26 robbery of an Akeley branch bank, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury. Hubbard County Attorney Don Dearstyne moved to dismiss local charges against Lowen Tuesday morning as the federal indictment was unsealed. Dearstyne said federal marshals picked Lowen up from the Hubbard County Correctional Center and transported him to Bemidji where he was scheduled to make a first appearance on the federal bank robbery charge. For more on the story see Wednesday's Park Rapids Enterprise.

Hubbard County has fewer delinquent taxpayers for its 2009 payable taxes, but those amounts are slightly higher than past years. Delinquent taxpayers on a list published this spring include a high figure of $82,285.20 past due on property in Farden Township to as little as $2.20 owed by a Lakeport Township widow. Taxpayers are forking over the money to pay their taxes because the county sees relatively few actual forfeitures and none last year. "I don't foresee a lot of forfeitures this year either because most of the people on our list have contacted us and one way or the other are maki

Sheriff Frank Homer made his formal announcement Thursday that he intends to seek election to the post he was appointed to a year ago. Homer has 25 years in law enforcement. He was born and raised in Chicago and moved to Hubbard County in 1978. He attained a bachelor's degree from BSU and got his police skills training in Hibbing. He began his law enforcement training in college as a security guard.

A warm spring has meant boat owners want to get on the water sooner. "This is the earliest I can remember" people wanting their boats out of storage, said Charlie Kellner, owner of Charlie's Boats & Marine in Park Rapids. "Put it this way, we're off to a very good start," said Julie Tabbert, secretary of Johnson's on the Water in Dorset. Johnson's schedule of customers wishing to pick up their boats or have them delivered is full to the end of the month, she said. That could change. 'The snowbirds aren't back yet," Kellner said. "With the fishing opener pushed back a week this year

One person was transported to the Park Rapids hospital following a rear-end collision six miles south of town that snarled traffic along U.S. Highway 71. Both vehicles were heading north when the collision occurred.

Hubbard County's new Veterans Service Officer is off and running, only three days on the job. And Gregory Remus may be a poster child for the Park Rapids Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife have already bought a home on Portage Lake, which they will close on next week, and their youngest daughter, a standout cross-country runner and track star, is getting ready to enroll at Park Rapids Area High School next fall. His two oldest children are students at UND. "We chose this town because my parents live on Leech Lake," he said.